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i did it all for the robins ([personal profile] musesfool) wrote2025-07-12 09:52 pm

get down, get down

As I may have mentioned, Baby Miss L loves potatoes, so when I saw a t-shirt on Etsy that said, "Potatoes gonna potate!" around a picture of a potato, I thought, I have to get it for her! Unfortunately, it was only available in neon green, which I did not like the look of. Luckily, many other vendors were also selling t-shirts with pictures of friendly potatoes on them, so I got her this one that says, "Tater tot!"

This morning, I received a series of glamour shots and a video of Baby Miss L thoroughly excited about wearing the t-shirt. It was so great!

I also learned that The Muppets covering Jungle Boogie is one of her current favorite videos. AMAZING!

On all counts, her vibes are immaculate.

Tomorrow, I'm going to a birthday bbq at my brother's, and I'm bringing her the Batman and Robin t-shirts, plus some toddler books about Batman and the Justice League. Hopefully she enjoys them almost as much! (I also recently sent her a Captain America t-shirt, which I believe she wore for the 4th, and I also got pics of her in the Superman dress, with her arms up like she was flying. 😍😍😍)

In other news, I found this review of the new Superman movie really moving. Will I venture out to a theater to see it? Probably not, but I will be very excited to watch it when it makes its way onto HBO in a few months.

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othercat ([personal profile] othercat) wrote2025-07-12 06:15 pm
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a merry ghoul ([personal profile] merryghoul) wrote2025-07-12 08:15 pm

some recent recs I’d like to share 1

Title: Claudia de lioncourt
Creator: [tumblr.com profile] haflacky
Prompt: colored art
Fanwork Type: fanart
Fandom: Interview with the Vampire (TV)
Character: Claudia de Lioncourt
Rating: G
Warnings: none

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Asp ([personal profile] senmut) wrote2025-07-12 06:40 pm

Saturday Morning Exchange: My Gift

New Home (571 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Aristocats (1970)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Duchess/Thomas O'Malley, Berlioz & Marie & Toulouse (Disney: Aristocats)
Characters: Thomas O'Malley, Duchess (Disney: Aristocats), Berlioz (Disney), Marie (Disney: Aristocats), Toulouse (Disney)
Additional Tags: Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Character Study, of sorts
Summary:

Thomas O'Malley reflects on his new home.

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Clockwork Tower ([personal profile] the_broken_tower) wrote in [community profile] unclutter2025-07-12 06:51 pm

Does Anyone Unclutter Their Email?

I went through a round of email purging. 3k+ emails in one category have gone to within 2k.

Over the next year or so I'd like to clean up old emails until everything that is needed/desired is in its own folder, and everything else has been deleted.

- Olai
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Clockwork Tower ([personal profile] the_broken_tower) wrote in [community profile] unclutter2025-07-12 05:12 pm

Preventative Un-Clutter Measures, Minor Progress, and Next Week's Goals

Weeks are about to get even fuller with a summer class and impending semester. The main point of progress this week was clearing out the fridge, and cleaning the handwash-only dishes in the sink. (Dishwasher FTW, it keeps things so much more manageable.)

These are some things that have helped with preventing clutter in the first place:

1. No-buy rules on craft projects. The current in-progress shirt gets finished, THEN the next project in queue, and new fabric (fabric samples included) only happens if it is being picked out for a specific, immediate project.

2. Only one craft project out at a time, and it lives on the coffee table. Keeps the mess consolidated and easier to clean.

3. Trying to maintain a schedule. Recycling goes out on Monday or Tuesday, which is the same day as big errands (car refilling, groceries). One day between Friday and Monday is for housekeeping tasks - sweeping/vacuuming, cleaning, putting things away.

4. Dedicated days off. No working, paid or otherwise. Housework counts as working. This lets the energy bar go back up so it's not a continuous struggle on low-energy weeks to keep things tidy.

... But things still get overlooked and hectic. Some tasks get postphoned because of weather or fatigue.

So here are the general goals to hit next week.

1. All of the glass recycling (minus lightbulbs) taken out.
2. Thing 1 and Thing 2 mailed off.
3. Big box of donations taken to a donation drop.

These tasks have been pending for several weeks, so it would be nice to see them off.

- Ode (he/him)
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marthawells ([personal profile] marthawells) wrote2025-07-12 03:05 pm

Murderbot Interview

Here's a gift link for the New York Times interview with Paul and Chris Weitz, who wrote, directed, and produced Murderbot:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/arts/television/murderbot-season-finale-chris-paul-weitz.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V08.exvw.M_qE37ROOT58&smid=url-share
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blueraccoon ([personal profile] blueraccoon) wrote2025-07-12 01:02 pm

FIC: Test Flight

Title: Test Flight (Sanctuary #4)
Author: blueraccoon/rebecca
Rating: NC-17
Summary: “So. Your friends want to meet me. At the dungeon, presumably?”

“Oui, I think that is the idea,” Jean-Rene says. “Brent suggested I bring you this Saturday night. There will be a public scene involving ropes.”
Notes: Not exactly a PWP (look! character development!) but there's an awful lot of kink and smut in this one. Note the tags on AO3.

If you are unfamiliar with previous stories all you need to know is I invented a members-only dungeon in Manhattan named Steel Rose that has public and private play spaces, and where anyone who's anyone in the kink scene goes to watch or play.
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skygiants ([personal profile] skygiants) wrote2025-07-12 11:29 am

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lest you think that having returned The Pushcart War to its rightful owner I went away with my bookshelves lighter! I did NOT, as she pushed 84, Charing Cross Road into my hands at the airport as I was leaving again with strict instructions to read it ASAP.

This is another one that's been on my list for years -- specifically, since I read Between Silk and Cyanide, as cryptography wunderkind Leo Marks chronicling the desperate heroism and impossible failures of the SOE is of course the son of the owner of Marks & Co., the bookstore featuring in 84, Charing Cross Road, because the whole of England contains approximately fifteen people tops.

84, Charing Cross Road collects the correspondence between jobbing writer Helene Hanff -- who started ordering various idiosyncratic books at Marks & Co. in 1949 -- and the various bookstore employees, primarily but not exclusively chief buyer Frank Doel. Not only does Hanff has strong and funny opinions about the books she wants to read and the editions she's being sent, she also spends much of the late forties and early fifties expressing her appreciation by sending parcels of rationed items to the store employees. A friendship develops, and the store employees enthusiastically invite Hanff to visit them in England, but there always seems to be something that comes up to prevent it. Hanff gets and loses jobs, and some of the staff move on. Rationing ends, and Hanff doesn't send so many parcels, but keeps buying books. Twenty years go by like this.

Since 84, Charing Cross Road was a bestseller in 1970 and subsequently multiply adapted to stage and screen, and Between Silk and Cyanide did not receive publication permission until 1998, I think most people familiar with these two books have read them in the reverse order that I did. I think it did make sort of a difference to feel the shadow of Between Silk and Cyanide hanging over this charming correspondence -- not for the worse, as an experience, just certain elements emphasized. Something about the strength and fragility of a letter or a telegram as a thread to connect people, and how much of a story it does and doesn't tell.

As a sidenote, in looking up specific publication dates I have also learned by way of Wikipedia that there is apparently a Chinese romcom about two people who both independently read 84, Charing Cross Road, decide that the book has ruined their lives for reasons that are obscure to me in the Wikipedia summary, write angry letters to the address 84 Charing Cross Road, and then get matchmade by the man who lives there now. Extremely funny and I kind of do want to watch it.
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Cassie Morgan ([personal profile] badfalcon) wrote2025-07-10 07:46 pm

[community profile] sunshine_revival Challenge #3 - Snack Shack

Challenge #3
Journaling prompt: What are your favourite summer-associated foods?

Strawberries and cream, obviously. Is it even summer if you haven’t eaten strawberries until your fingers are stained red and you feel a little too full but still somehow tempted to go back for just one more? Ideally they’re a little overripe and still warm from the sun, and the cream is cold and just barely sweetened. That’s the classic.

No photo description available.But my favourite summer foods aren’t just about flavour - they’re rooted in memory, tangled up with the smell of grass and sunblock, the buzz of bees, the distant whine of a hosepipe being uncoiled.

When I was a kid, my dad had a huge garden - and not just that, he also had an allotment, so we were always growing something. It felt like magic, honestly, how much came out of the ground every year. Apples, pears, plums, raspberries, strawberries, gooseberries, loganberries, rhubarb. I think at one point we even had blackcurrants and redcurrants, though I might be imagining that part. The raspberries were my favourite - I’d eat them straight off the plant, warmed by the sun, until I made myself absolutely sick. (Still worth it. Every time.)

We had so much fruit that my childhood summers were full of jam-making and crumbles and endless bowls of stewed fruit with custard. We'd freeze some too - bags and bags of berries packed away for winter, though somehow the frozen ones never quite tasted the same.

And then there were the vegetables. Potatoes, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, carrots, cabbage, marrow. I loved the peas most of all - so sweet and crisp, straight from the pod. But I wasn’t allowed to help with the pea harvest anymore after a certain age. There was an incident involving a suspiciously empty bucket and one very full stomach. (Apparently, you can’t be trusted when you come back with more pod than pea. Who knew?)

There’s something about food you’ve watched grow that tastes different - more alive, maybe, more rooted. Summer still tastes like that for me: the green snap of a fresh pod, fruit sticky on your hands, the scent of crushed tomato leaves, and the way the air smells when it’s hot and full of bees and pollen and everything’s growing. Strawberries and cream are just the tip of the memory.
 

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Cassie Morgan ([personal profile] badfalcon) wrote2025-07-12 10:07 am

Yo, listen up here's a story

Li and I are having one of those moments where our echolalia triggers each other.

I said 'new new new book review', which is the name of the template I made in Cava for writing/posting book reviews.

So now she's sitting there, in a very David Attenborough-esque voice, going 'Blue maomao'

And every time she says 'blue', I start singing the Eiffel 65 song.

Life in a neurotypical household must be so boring. And very quiet.
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courtney ([personal profile] sonofgodzilla) wrote2025-07-12 09:16 am

FIC: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Mahou Sensei Negima! - From Frederica to You

Title: From Frederica to You
Universe: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Mahou Sensei Negima!
Prompt: '—where no dreams reach; that last amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the centre of all infinity'
Character(s): Konoe Konoka, Sakurazaki Setsuna, Frederica Bernkastel
Rating: U
Warnings: N/A
Summary: “No one attends to this shrine anymore,” the woman announced, jumping gracefully down from the wall. “The deity here is sleeping.”
Length: 580 words
Author's Notes: Merry Christmas in July! #7. also: external link.

cat

ExpandFrom Frederica to You )
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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2025-07-12 12:18 am

Another Murderbot TV fic, Temperature Flash, and Hurt/Comfort-Ex

I wrote another Murderbot 1x10 episode missing scene.

Echoes (gen, 2500 words, Gurathin-centric)
Summary redacted because of spoilers; basically Gurathin's POV on some of the events of the finale.

A few notes on the fic (spoilery for both fic and episode):
under here• I kept tweaking Gura's final line to Murderbot, so it might be a bit different if you read an earlier version. (I felt like I needed to soften it from how it originally was. They are hard to write! Especially keeping their edge when they're so soft in the final scene.)

• We know Murderbot has trouble figuring out what it's feeling, but I also think it's very plausible that Gurathin has the same problem, if not as badly. He's repressed so much for so long. Asking himself to identify exactly what emotions he's feeling is something that some therapist or other taught him to do.

• This is not necessary context for the fic and it's entirely subject to interpretation, but what I was thinking when it wrote it is that Murderbot using "its" for augmented humans in its last line of dialogue to Gurathin is actually MB doing roughly the same thing (except more emotionally positive) that Gurathin is doing in the episode of the show where he's arguing with Mensah and calls it "he" and then corrects himself to "it." It's over-identifying and doesn't even realize that it's doing so; I mean, it's worried about Gurathin, obviously, and that's why it's here, but there's also a certain amount of "we are the same kind of creature" going on here, even though it doesn't realize it's relating to him on that level. It knows that he might have damaged himself with the data overload because it also knows that it might damage itself in a similar way, and he has much less storage to handle it. And it's just kind of subconsciously being concerned about him as it might be concerned about a fellow construct, or itself, having taken damage. Of course neither of them parses all of that consciously.


In other events, Terrible Temperature Troubles Flash Exchange revealed gifts tonight! I got two absolutely delightful gifts - An Official Complaint Against the Universe (Babylon 5, Vir & Londo, hypothermia and h/c) and Consequences of Cold (Biggles, Biggles/EvS, snuggling when chilled). I loved them!

And finally, [community profile] hurtcomfortex author reveals were tonight. I wrote Sleepover (MASH, 1700 words, Margaret POV) with huddling for warmth and light comfort after nightmares.
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puddleshark ([personal profile] puddleshark) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2025-07-12 07:49 am
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e ([personal profile] enemyofperfect) wrote2025-07-11 11:11 pm

Regarding research transports

Have I finally reached a critical mass of fannish enthusiasm such that I actually have the motivation to post? Let's find out!

Today a new Murderbot short story came out: Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy, which is free to read at Reactor. It's 7.5k, set after Artificial Condition, and Murderbot appears only by implication, because the point of view character is one of ART's human crew members.

ExpandEverything else I have to say is spoilers, for both the short story and System Collapse. )
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Lynn | Settiai ([personal profile] settiai) wrote2025-07-11 11:08 pm
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